The Washington Post vs. Me

*fume*

So, while ecwoodburn has been having trouble with Verizon, I have been fighting with the Washington Post.
See, a couple weeks after moving in, the Washington Post called and asked if I wanted to receive the Post. At the time, Kristen was still looking for a job and I thought 'Sure. Maybe I'll read it or use it for the coupons." But I never read it and we never used it for the coupons. Then a month or so back they called to tell me that they were going to, for free, give me 7 papers a week, hoping to convert me to uying it, but I DEFINATELY don't have time during the week, so they started piling up. Not only that, but the paper boy had stopped dropping the paper towards my door and had started throwing it at my small patio, where it would smack the glass door and stay there. I don't care for that, especially when the banging of the paper against the door wakes me up.
Last Wednesday, I finally took the step and called the Post to cancel my subscription. They said I should get my last paper Friday. Fine. Saturday morning... I get a paper (?), so I call and they say that what they meant was that my last paper would be Saturday. Well, OK.. if you promise.
Sunday... got a paper! Call very angry and they confirmed that my subscription was ended as of the day before. They wrote up a complaint to give to the distributor and I HOPED that was that.
Nuh uh.
MONDAY... go to work, no paper. Come home... paper. What the hell?!?! Call the Post AGAIN who tell me that they've already logged a complaint and would log another and call the distributor. It probably wouldn't go into effect until yesterday (so I'd get a paper yesterday), but that should be it. Fine. It better be.
But, no, no it's not.
I went right from work to Kristen's yesterday (stressful day and never had the time to go home), sonever checked my machine. Come home from a nice dinner.. and there's a message on my machine from my Post distributor. Call her. She got the complaint from me. She's GOING TO CONTINUE TO DELIVER MY PAPER UNTIL SHE'S HEARD FROM ME! Oh, and she didn't bother to leave a number. (As it turns out, it was on the Washington Post bill, but still.. you could't leave the number?) It was, however, on my Caller ID so I called back. I had a VERY difficult time telling her I didn't want the paper without calling her a fucking moron. (This was supposed to have been dropped half a week ago.)
Will Howard actually stop receiving the paper? Will the idiots at the Post get their act together? Will Howard actually get a paper today?
Stay tune to find out.